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  • Restored homes grace a street in the old Wicker Park neighborhood.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • A woman browses to shop for tourist postcards depicting the Alps mountain scenery and attractions at a street side stand catering to tourists in Chamonix.
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  • Morning sunlight reflections dapple W. Adams Street near Berghoff restaurant.
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  • Men sitting outside a shop on a street known for wedding attire. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China is now experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—an expected 250 million by 2012, and 300 to perhaps 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • Migrant workers with jobs as moving men, play on the street outside an office building.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone on a street at night.
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  • A street in Zhapo is reflected in a  restaurant fish tank.
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  • A street corner in Hong Kong near Nathan Road.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • A woman talking on a cell phone on a city street at night.
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  • A young woman laughing on a street in the Chaoyang district.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • Elevated view of the main street in Eureka Springs.
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  • View of a community garden at a street corner in Queens.  It is a project of El la and Percy Heron, who converted a vacant trashed lot into an "Operation Green Thumb" garden, attracting inner-city volunteers.
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  • As twilight falls on a darkened street scene in Mendrisio, candle-lit banners from the 17th and 18th century glow depicting Christ's passion. Villagers rush home to prepare for a somber processional that flows through the streets celebrating Holy Week.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • A street scene with a Coca Cola kiosk.
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  • Street scene of Kireka outside Kampala.
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  • Street scene in Harappa.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • Street scene outside Ghoray Shah temple.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • Street scene in Multan.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • A street scene in the Philippines.
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  • Tourists gather to wait for a bus on snow-covered streets in trendy Courmayeur. It is a busy ski season in the area of Mont Blanc on the Italian side of the Alps.
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  • People ignore the monsoon rain while strolling the streets on Christmas eve.
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  • There are 2.6 billion armpits in China, according to an ad man, and someone has to sell them deodorant. This shop-owner (right) thinks a guy wandering Nanjing Road in a full knight suit will do the trick for his snack shop.
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  • The need for electrical power is so great in Shanghai that migrant workers are hired to hook them up by strapping a high voltage wire around their waist and pulling it across an already stressed grid by walking on the actual wires that bring the electricity.  There is a (dirty) coal power plant coming online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego. Energy is wasted on an epic scale. One hundred cities with populations over 1 million faced extreme water shortages last year. China’s survival has always been built on the notion of a vastly powerful, infallible center. Thus, China has poor foundations on which to build the subtle network of institutions and accountability necessary to manage the complexities of a modern economy and society. The lack of independent scrutiny and accountability lies behind the massive waste in the Chinese government and destruction of the environment. Air pollution contributed by these plants kills 400,000 people prematurely every year.
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  • Weary Chinese middle class groom to be on wedding shopping street in Guangzhou, China
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  • Market scene in Harappa town.
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  • Women panning for gold in the dust of streets full of garbage.
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  • Women panning for gold in the dust of streets full of garbage.
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  • This Indian festival in the Ramblas Catalunya area of Barcelona is called Vaisakhi.  These are Sikhs from Punjab that started a procession in Ramblas Raval and carried it thru Ramblas Catalunya and ended at the Plaza St. Augustine. The festival includes the passing out of huge amounts of food.  The men in this street hauled cart after shopping cart of fresh fruit and passed it out to the public.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis. Many in this crowd are headed to a call to prayer at a Mosque near the Hindu Newspaper.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis.
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  • A couple kissing in the streets of downtown Reykjavik.
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  • Bathing in a sidewalk trough on the streets of Kolkata.
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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • Xidan shopping area in downtown Beijing just off the side of Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city has been a commercial street crowded with shops since the Ming dynasty.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • Over 700 children carry hundred year old candle-lit lanterns made of canvas as they walk through the streets on Good Friday of Holy Week. The Christian celebration in Mendrisio dates back to the 17th century.
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  • Leaving  a Johnny Walker/Formula one car event at Granvill Mall, I came upon a woman with a broken shoe and her friend who was trying to fix it by using his cell phone as a hammer. Cell phones are changed up so frequently, so why not use it as a hammer? Their friends were laughing at the scene so she was embarrassed.
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  • Although high-rises ring its harbor and it ranks as Chile's business seaport, Valparaiso has never fully reclaimed the glory it enjoyed before 1914, when the opening of the Panama Canals redirected much of its business.  Cars and buses navigate hilly streets in a twilight view of the harbor with cargo ship, and skyline.
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  • Restored Colonial colonnades edge Lima's Plaza de Armas, bringing many people into the streets of Peru's capital city. The era when the City of Kings was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, established it as the showplace of Spanish South America.
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  • A dragon dance for promotional purposes on East Nanjing Road.
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  • There is a reason Guangzhou was the first city in China to reach first world status (2008). Everyone in Guangzhou, aside from the migrant population, is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the U.S., so that $830 equals $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power of average citizens in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • People walking in Shenzhen on a rainy night.
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  • Traffic in Shenzhen at night.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A bachelorette party waits for taxis on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
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  • The Wolfsonian-FIU-Florida International University: a design museum.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple enjoys a private moment at an outdoor restaurant.
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  • An upscale shopping mall.
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  • A couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A wedding party takes photos outside the historic Fox Theatre on Woodward Avenue.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Circassian dancers in a Black Sea village prepare for a festival.
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  • A girl plays in the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle.
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  • Winter tourists shop in the posh resort town of Saint Moritz known for it's fashionable, stylish clientele and designer fashions. A hotel pioneer first attracted tourists to the high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland in 1864.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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  • Reflection of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • Workers pull electrical power lines above pedestrians.
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  • The government has made clear that it will do whatever it takes to keep the swelling middle class happy. Like anyone else, their experiences and those of their families shape members of the comfort class. When their parents talk about the Great Leap Forward (the disastrous Mao campaign in the late 1950s that left 20 to 30 million dead of starvation) and the subsequent chaos of the Cultural Revolution, they mostly tell horror stories that would put anyone off politics forever. One event that the comfort class does remember is the crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989. But to young Chinese, the Tiananmen protests are less a source of inspiration than an admonishment. Continued popular uprisings like Tiananmen, they believe, would have have provoked a counter reaction by conservative forces that would have led to a return to fortress China, meaning no more iPods, overseas shopping trips or snowboarding weekends.
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  • A walkway from the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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  • A young woman in costume during the October Week holiday.
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  • October Holiday week along the Bund on the Puxi side of Shanghai where this couple is one of the lucky ones. “Bare Branches”—a phenomenon where a boy just cannot find a girl is becoming more and more of a social problem. According to the 2010 census, there were 118.06 boys born for every 100 girls. For the population born between 1900 and 2000, it is estimated that there could be 35.59 million fewer females than males. Maybe everyone eventually can have a car, but can every boy find a girl?
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  • Pedestrians in downtown Shanghai.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • Workers repair electrical power lines above pedestrians. The need for electrical power is so great in Shanghai that migrant workers are hired to hook them up by strapping a high voltage wire around their waist and pull it across an already stressed net by walking on the actual wires that bring the electricity.  There is a (dirty) coal power plant coming online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego. Energy is wasted on an epic scale. One hundred cities with populations over 1 million faced extreme water shortages last year. China’s survival has always been built on the notion of a vastly powerful, infallible center. Thus, China has poor foundations on which to build the subtle network of institutions and accountability necessary to manage the complexities of a modern economy and society. The lack of independent scrutiny and accountability lies behind the massive waste in the Chinese government and destruction of the environment. Air pollution contributed by these plants kills 400,000 people prematurely every year.
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  • People on the 236 bus in Guangzhou.
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  • A pedestrian shopping area in downtown Guangzhou at night.
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  • A pedestrian shopping area in downtown Guangzhou at night.
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  • A woman stands in a basketball court lined with Nike ads.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a movie theater.
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  • Pedestrians in a shopping area.
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  • A crowd of people in a walkway.
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  • A morning commuter along Wicker and the Riverwalk.
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  • Traffic sweeps past an American chain restaurant on East Nanjing Road.
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